Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet — The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet. — The Labor Party's policy was announced prior to the Australian Election in November …

“What's your audience size?” is wrong question — I'm reading my feeds this morning and see a few people talking about audience size for videobloggers and other content people. Here's a sample: — Henry Blodget points out that Perez Hilton has a huge audience, but hasn't yet been able to sell much advertising to it.

Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph — Google has been quietly rolling out social features across all of its services based on Gmail contacts. While Google still has to overcome some of its social tone-deafness (e.g. automatically adding contacts without asking), this move makes perfect sense.

Online Video Auteurs: Keep Your Day Jobs, Part 2 — Perez Hilton tells TVWeek his videos on Google's YouTube generated 25 million views over the past three months and netted him a whopping $5,000 in revenue. That's a 20-cent CPM. (It's an even lower net CPM for Google, by the way, assuming a payout ratio of more than 50%.

Global Market for Cellphone Ring Tones Is Shrinking — After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo, according to a variety of measures. — In some parts of the world, ring tone sales are actually declining …

Web Playgrounds of the Very Young — LOS ANGELES — Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set. — Trying to duplicate the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, children's entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts …

Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike — IT'S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

What are we doing when we Twitter? — I came across a post by J.P. Rangaswami, whose blog I quite like, and he was talking about Twitter and what he gets out of it. You can read the full post, but in essence he says that he gets something different from the people he follows on Twitter …